For the week leading up to Super Bowl LII, the game show “Jeopardy!” dedicated one category to the sport on the Feb. 1, 2018 edition entitled “Talkin’ Football.” But the category proved to be a bust for all the night’s participating contestants. Not one of them buzzed in with a guess for each of the […]
First-run daytime talker “Steve,” hosted by the busy Steve Harvey, will return for a second season in 2018-19 on stations covering approximately 90 percent of the U.S. TV households (including the NBC’s owned & operated stations). “Steve” follows Harvey’s five-season run on “The Steve Harvey Show” from NBCUniversal, which ended in November 2016. The new […]
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Game show “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” and viral videos show “RightThisMinute” have been renewed for 2018-2019 on the ABC Owned Television Stations, it was announced today by Disney/ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution. Hosted by Chris Harrison and currently in its 16th season in first-run syndication, “Millionaire” continues to be the only game […]
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Entertainment Studios has extended comedy game show “Funny You Should Ask” through the 2020-21 season, taking it through season four with a total of 520 episodes. Hosted by Jon Kelley (“Extra”), “Funny You Should Ask” is a daily half-hour strip featuring a panel of comedians who interact with contestants for cash and big laughs. In […]
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Alex Trebek, the host of longrunning syndicated hit game show “Jeopardy“, disclosed in a YouTube video on Jan. 4 he had a “slight medical problem”: a subdural hematoma (blood clots on his brain) due to a fall he had experienced about two months prior. During the holiday weeks, Trebek had surgery done for it and […]
Syndicated daytime talk show “The Real” from Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution has been renewed by the Fox Television Stations for the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons on all of its owned and operated television stations in 17 markets (which reach more than 37 percent of television households). Debuting as a test-run in the summer of […]
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Victory was in sight for contestant Wilbur Farley, a lecturer from Patchogue, N.Y., on the Nov. 21 episode of “Jeopardy“. The Final Jeopardy category was Classic Albums. Farley managed to guess the correct answer but because he had not written the album’s title completely, he wound up losing money by his wager and finished in […]
